Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at Oracle
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Chief Strategy Officer & VP Architecture at Oracle
- Past
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- Chief Strategy Officer at BMC Software
- Venture Partner, Strategy Consultant and M&A Advisor at Multiple Companies
- Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Startups
- Senior Management Positions at IBM, McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom (BT) and Nortel
- Education
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- University of Michigan
- Connections
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- Computer Software
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Jay Parekh’s Summary
Jay has over twenty years of executive, strategy, operations and software development experience in the IT industry.
Most recently as Chief Strategy Officer at Oracle and BMC, his responsibilities included corporate strategy, solution architecture, business planning, corporate development (M&A) and strategic marketing. Prior to that he served as Venture Partner, Strategy Consultant and Board Member at multiple companies, and as Founder & CEO of highly successful Silicon Valley start-ups. Before that he held senior management positions at IBM, McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom and Nortel, where he managed global software development, IT operations and services organizations.
He holds Masters in Computer Science from University of Michigan.
Jay Parekh’s Specialties:
Corporate Strategy, Solution Architecture, Business Planning, Corporate Development, M&A, Business Development, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Marketing, R&D/Software Engineering, IT Management, IT Operations, IT Services, Customer Services, Support Automation, Business Operations, Business Service Management, and Business Process Management
Jay Parekh’s Experience
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Chief Strategy Officer & VP Architecture
Oracle
(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Responsible for Oracle’s Enterprise Management Strategy & Architecture
Created Oracle's new vision and management strategy, called Business Value Management (BVM), to provide end-to-end management of Oracle's business solutions stack. BVM scope includes: Business Process Management, Business Service Management, Top-Down Application Management (integrated management of Applications, Middleware and Databases), Cloud Management, and Service & Support Management
Delivered strategy presentations, solution architectures, build/buy/partnership plans, execution road maps, analyst presentations and CIO pitch.
Led/supported Oracle’s acquisitions of: Active Reasoning, Auptima, Empirix, Moniforce, ClearApp, and mValent
On 6/26/08 Forrester published Oracle SWOT report quoting: "Oracle presents an impressive and very advanced strategy. The vision of IT’s future and the role of IT management is right on the money. The focus on business value should resonate very well with CxO on each side of the fence. This could very well make Oracle the fifth major vendor of IT management software within next 3 years”.
On 12/12/08 Forrester published a legendary “BSM 2.0” paper officially adopting my work on BVM as the blueprint of IT industry. -
Chief Strategy Officer
BMC Software
(Public Company; BMC; Computer Software industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years )
Responsible for vision, strategy, business planning and corporate development (M&A) activities of BMC's $1B Enterprise Service Management business. Also responsible for overseeing strategic marketing, business development and strategic alliances.
Defined and executed multiple corporate strategic initiatives to make BMC one of the top three players in following markets: Change & Configuration Management (CCM, CMDB), Data Center Automation (DCA), IT Service Management (ITSM), Support Automation, Knowledge Management, Event Management, Run-book Automation (RBA), Project & Portfolio Management (PPM), IT Governance (ITG), Business Service Management (BSM 1.0 & 2.0), Business Process Management (BPM), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Business Intelligence (BI). Also evaluated On Demand, SaaS, Cloud & Open Source areas.
Created and executed build-buy-partnership plans leading to successful acquisitions of: Marimba, KMXperts, ProactiveNet, RealOps, Emprisa, BladeLogic & ITM Software -
Venture Partner, Strategy Consultant and M&A Advisor
Multiple Companies
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Evaluated and performed due diligence of 100+ companies for investments, M&A, strategic partnerships, strategic alliances, joint ventures, strategic repositioning and restructuring. Served as strategy consultant, M&A advisor and board member at multiple companies.
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Founder & CEO
Silicon Valley Startups
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2001 (6 years )
Founded and managed highly innovative Startups in the IT Software, SaaS and Internet industries, including Manage.com - the first company to deliver highly automated Web/Java based IT management solutions. Successfully built business plans, executive and engineering teams, products and services, and Fortune 500 reference customer base. Won a large number of product awards and prestigious company listings. Helped raise $48M funding and $200M acquisition offer.
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Senior Management Positions
IBM, McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom (BT) and Nortel
(Computer Software industry)
1985 — 1995 (10 years )
Managed Software Development, System Engineering, IT Operations and Business Services organizations.
Accomplishments include development and delivery of multiple major releases of software products, solutions and services to a large number of enterprises customers. Also managed multiple cross-functional corporate initiatives involving planning, roll-out, and operation of global networks, network operation centers, data centers, database management systems, business applications, system & process automations, support & service automations, total quality management, business intelligence (reporting, analytics & business planning), business process monitoring, and business process improvements.
Jay Parekh’s Education
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University of Michigan
M.S. , Computer Science
